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Critical anthology of the art journal Interfunktionen. Edited by Gloria Moure. Texts by Friedrich Wolfram Heubach and Birgit Pelze. Artists include Vito Acconci, Keith Arnatt, John Baldessari, Lothar Baumgarten, Bill Beckley, Joseph Beuys, George Brecht, K.P. Brehmer, Marcel Broodthaers, Günter Brus, Daniel Buren, Walter De Maria, Jan Dibbets, Valie Export, Terry Fox, Jon Gibson, Gilbert & George, Philip Glass, Dan Graham, Hans Haacke, Wilhelm & Birgit Hein, Michael Heizer, Rebecca Horn, Peter Hutchison, Jörg Immendorff, Will Insley, Mauricio Kagel, David Lamelas, George Landow, Malcolm Legrice, Richard Long, George Maciunas, Bruce Nauman, Dennis Oppenheim, Sigmar Polke, Yvonne Rainer, Dieter Roth, Paul Sharits, Robert Smithson, Wolf Vostell, William Wegman, and Lawrence Weiner. Features 248 color and 108 duotone illustrations. "Interfunktionen, an art journal which published 12 issues between 1968 and 1975 in Cologne, was founded in 1968 as a form of protest by artists who had no affinity with the critical lines that were redrawn at Documenta that year. The review was of considerable importance as a vehicle for propagating pro-European ideas and as a union between artists in Europe and the United States, irrespective of the predominating movements of the time. It contained both theoretical and practical contributions, with the intervention of creators who defined and illustrated their artistic strategies. Directly linked to the most prominent figures in the Düsseldorf Kunstacademie, such as Joseph Beuys, Jorg Immendorf and Sigmar Polke, it also boasted the involvement of the most spirited and reflexive artists of the times, from Vito Acconci and Marcel Broodthaers to Bruce Nauman and Dieter Roth. Interfunktionen, as its name indicates, was an inter-disciplinary publication, open to all artistic genres and with no restrictions as to media. This book is produced in collaboration with Fritz Heubach, the review's first editor, and depicts the experience of those years by means of original documents--some of them hitherto unpublished--artworks, and artists' writings." -- publisher's statement.